Review for Final 95-702                                             Spring 2005

Topics
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1.  Servlets
2.  HTTP Get and Post
3.  Web Applications and Web Containers
4.  Singleton design pattern
5.  Characterization of distributed systems
6.  Challenges in constructing distributed systems
7.  Internet and intranets
8.  Middleware
9.  Open systems
10. Scalability
11. Concurrency
12. Failure handling
13. Types of transparency 
14. Architectural models 
15. Fundamental Models (interaction, failure, security)
16. Hardware and software layers
17. Lamport clocks
18. Processing XML StAX
19. Open Systems Interconnection (ISO Model) Be able to list a technology at each protocol layer
20. IP, ARP, and DHCP
21. XML Namespaces
22. SOAP, UDDI, WSDL
23. Sockets (UDP and TCP) 
24. Function of a CORBA Interface compiler
25. Remote Object Reference
26. Traditional vs. SOAP based HTTP request and reply messages
27. Java RMI and the rmiregistry
28. Java RMI and the proxy design pattern
29. Java RMI and the distributed whiteboard
30. .NET remoting (singlecall, singleton, client-activated objects)
31. SOAP and RMI distributed chat server 
32. CORBA history and goals
33. CORBA Services
34. Function of CORBA Interface Definition Language
35. Java wscompile and .NET wsdl
36. Architecture of Distributed Event Notifications
37. Dealing Room System
38. EJB Container services
39. EJB object Types and purpose of each
40. Role of JNDI
41. Naming conventions
42. Naming System and Naming Contexts
43. Binding
44. Directory service
45. EJB Interfaces for Entity and session beans(Remote, RemoteHome, Local, LocalHome)
46. Message Driven Beans and JMS
47. Eckel on Enterprise Java Beans at http://www.Mindview.net 
48. Be able to name at least three J2EE implementations
49. Database transactions
50. Distributed transactions